Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 213
But Paao knew the inherent reverence of the Polynesians for blood-royal.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: know, reverence · To what, where: inherent reverence, Polynesians
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 knew | cc |
| 2 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reverence | det |
| 5 | inherent | inherent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reverence | amod |
| 6 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Polynesians | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Polynesians | det |
| 9 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 reverence | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 royal | case |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 royal | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 blood | punct |
| 13 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Paao | the inherent reverence of the Polynesians | for blood royal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reverence=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reverence | the Polynesians | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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